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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is there any field in which you don’t need a PhD to become a professor, even an adjunct?

The question as posed suggests that OP is certainly not in a PhD program.  At best the OP is in undergrad.  If that’s correct, then OP should talk to their professors about becoming a professor.

But you don’t just walk in off the street and become a professor. [/quote]

You need a Phd or master's degree to teach at the college level. I think there is some confusion here about what a "professor" actually is -- they do teach as part of their responsibilities, but that isn't the most important part of what they "do." They are scholars, expected not only to know their field enough to teach others about it, but to actively engage in work to advance the field. This is perhaps more obvious with STEM folks who are, I don't know, trying to prove their theory of the physics of event horizons on black holes or something. But publish-or-perish applies just as much in the humanities -- an English professor's primary responsibility is advancing the field through scholarly research and publication as well. (Anyone who is confused by this is not in the position to think about being a professor in the humanities.) You aren't prepared to do that out of undergrad, it requires years of specialized study beyond it (there are exceptions so unique that they aren't really worth mentioning -- generally famous people in the fine arts). [/quote]

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